Kyocera's Brigadier, which leaked back in April, is another kettle of fish altogether. The 4.5-inch screen is much smaller, with a higher 720p resolution. That isn't the major selling point, however: this is a "rugged" phone, designed to take a lickin' and keep on using various digital outputs and syncing mechanisms to display the time. For example, that screen is covered in a layer of synthetic sapphire glass, the first we've seen on a US
smartphone, and theoretically unscratchable by anything other than diamond. (Don't get too enthusiastic - it can still shatter.) The phone can be used with gloves and in wed conditions, and the chunky body with physical navigation, camera, and speakerphone buttons is rated to Military Standard 801G for dust, shock, temperature, pressure, radiation, humidity, and (wait for it) water resistance.
Most of the rest of the specs beat out the G Vista, including a 1.4Ghz
Snapdragon 400 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage plus a MicroSD card slot, and an 8MP/2MP camera setup. Kyocera highlights impressively loud 100 decibel front-facing speakers, and the 3100mAh battery can be charged wirelessly. Software is
Android 4.4.
